Domestic Violence

HARTFORD — A Connecticut city where police officers and dispatchers were accused of negligence and ethnic discrimination in their response to what became a murder-suicide in 2010 has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the victim's family for $3 million. The estate of Turkish immigrant Shengyl Rasim sued the city of West Haven, two officers and two dispatchers in 2011. The estate's lawyer, Joel Faxon, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that a settlement recently was reached and is pending probate court approval. The city did not admit any wrongdoing, he said. The 25-year-old Rasim was shot to death by her husband, 42-year-old Selami Ozdemir in the early morning hours of...

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HARTFORD — A Connecticut city where police officers and dispatchers were accused of negligence and ethnic discrimination in their response to what became a murder-suicide in 2010 has agreed to settle a lawsuit by the victim's family for $3 million.
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